A MOTHER has credited a workman with saving her four-year-old daughter’s life after he jumped in front of her car to stop her from hitting an out-of-control lorry.

Helen, aged 43, said the worker stopped her from driving into the path of a cement truck which barrelled down Worcester’s Rose Bank and across London Road yesterday.

The driverless lorry then hurtled down Camp Hill Road and caused damage over a 150 metre area, according to the fire service.

The mother said: "The lorry would have hit my car. My daughter [Lizzie] was in the car on the lorry's side.

"It's a miracle no-one was hurt, I'm really grateful he saved us."

Helen said she was driving down London Road, towards the M5, when she saw the lorry with its hazard lights on struggling to get up the Rose Bank hill.

She added: "I looked to take a wide path around it and a lad jumped in front of the car.

"The lorry just whizzed straight in front of the car, hit the kerb and went down Camp Hill, I saw it take out all the gardens.

"The driver tried to jump into the cab. He was so shocked afterwards."

The mother said the builder who saved her worked for Matthews Construction and assumed he was working at the Rose Bank housing development.

She said staff told her the driver had got out of the vehicle as they could not get it up the hill.

Luckily no one was injured in the crash.

A resident claims he warned the council about the danger of lorries using the steep road before the near-miss happened.

David Dey, of St Catherine's Hill, Worcester, wrote to the chief executive of Worcestershire County Council, Paul Robinson, in relation to the lorries using Rose Bank before the crash took place.

He also complained about the damage that the vehicles were causing to the road. 

In a letter dated July 8 he wrote: “When the development was discussed the developers said that heavy traffic would not use Rose Bank.

"The highway is not built for this heavy traffic and it is dangerous to continue its use in this way."

A spokesman for Worcestershire County Council said an inspector previously visited the site and found some repairs had taken place.

The spokesman added that the council will return to see if further repairs are needed.